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• Could Avio’s Finalized Split from Arianespace Offer an Opening for Competitors? European Spaceflight · 8 Jul 2024 European Space Agency member states have agreed on the details of how customers already booked to be launched aboard Vega C flights will be managed after Avio splits from Arianespace. On 6 November 2023, during the ESA C...
• ESA Council decisions set the stage for more diverse European launch services ESA · 5 Jul 2024
• Europe’s Earth Return Orbiter reaches design maturity ESA · 5 Jul 2024 ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter, the first spacecraft that will rendezvous and capture an object around another planet, passed a key milestone to bring the first Mars samples back to Earth.
• EarthCARE offers a sneak peek into Earth’s energy balance ESA · 4 Jul 2024 Offering a foretaste of what’s to come once it is fully commissioned, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has returned the first images from its broadband radiometer instrument. These initial images offer a tantalising glimpse int...
• Payload for Final Vega Flight Aboard Ariane 6 Transport Headed to Kourou European Spaceflight · 4 Jul 2024 Airbus Defence and Space has announced that the 1.1-tonne Sentinel-2C satellite has been loaded onto the Ariane 6 transport ship Canopée for its two-week journey across the Atlantic to the Guiana Space Centre in French G...
• Tracking Ariane 6 as it soars over the Azores ESA · 4 Jul 2024 A network of ground stations around the world, including two owned by ESA, will track the debut flight of Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket. They will monitor key phases of the flight and gather telemetry and video that will...
• Stellar success for ESA's first open day in the UK ESA · 3 Jul 2024 Thousands of visitors flocked to ESA’s establishment in the UK last Saturday to experience first-hand how the agency is pushing the boundaries of exploration and using space to improve life on Earth.
• A snaking scar on Mars ESA · 3 Jul 2024 A fascinating feature takes centre stage in this new image from ESA’s Mars Express: a dark, uneven scar slicing through marbled ground at the foot of a giant volcano.
• ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Katherine Bennell-Pegg ESA · 1 Jul 2024 Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg joined ESA’s astronaut candidates from the class of 2022 for basic training through a cooperation agreement with ESA. Tune in as she shares her experienc...
• Happy launch anniversary, Euclid! ESA · 1 Jul 2024 Several team members wish Euclid a happy first launch anniversary in their own language. ESA’s Euclid satellite launched on 1 July 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, and now resides in an orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange poin...
• Hubble Examines an Active Galaxy Near the Lion’s Heart NASA · 28 Jun 2024 It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s center are moving very...
• Take off with ESA Impact! Ariane 6 and astronaut news await ESA · 28 Jun 2024 Take off with ESA Impact! Ariane 6 and astronaut news await
• Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC ESA · 27 Jun 2024 ESA’s Hera mission is due to launch in October this year on a quest to survey the Didymos binary asteroid system and study the results of the first-ever test of asteroid deflection.
• A first: EarthCARE reveals inner secrets of clouds ESA · 27 Jun 2024 Less than a month after it was launched, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has returned the first image from one of its instruments – an image that, for the first time from space, unveils the internal structure and dynamics of c...
• The Young Professional Satellite - Dream Big, Start Small (episode 1) ESA · 26 Jun 2024 In this first episode of our docu-series, we embark on the exciting journey of the YPSat (Young Professional Satellite), a satellite flying on-board the inaugural flight of Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy launcher. Two year...
• The space bricks have landed! ESA · 26 Jun 2024 ESA scientists have been exploring how a future Moon base might be built from materials on the lunar surface. Inspired by LEGO building, they have used dust from a meteorite to 3D-print 'space bricks' to test the idea. E...
• Time to build zero-debris satellites ESA · 26 Jun 2024 ESA is committed to deliver on the promise of Zero Debris by 2030. To ensure compliant satellites can be designed and built in time, ESA is supporting industry during this technologically challenging transition.
• NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join ESA’s Hera Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 25 Jun 2024 Three scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are among the dozen selected by the agency for the ESA planetary defense mission slated to launch later this year.
• NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join ESA’s Hera Mission NASA · 25 Jun 2024 NASA has selected 12 participating scientists to join ESA’s (European Space Agency) Hera mission, which is scheduled to launch in October 2024. Hera will study the binary asteroid system Didymos, including the moonlet Di...
• Jupiter’s upper atmosphere surprises astronomers ESA · 25 Jun 2024 Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the region above Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot to discover a variety of previously unseen features. The region, previously believed to be unremarka...
• ESA Signs Off on Argonaut Lunar Lander Engine Test European Spaceflight · 25 Jun 2024 An ESA-led Test Review Board has signed off on a hot fire test campaign of an engine being developed by ArianeGroup for the European Argonaut lunar lander. First called the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3), Argonaut...
• Europe aims to end space access crisis with Ariane 6’s inaugural launch SpaceNews · 24 Jun 2024 Q&A with Toni Tolker-Nielsen, ESA Director of Space Transportation.
• Webb captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc ESA · 24 Jun 2024 An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. This is the first discovery of star...
• ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with John McFall ESA · 24 Jun 2024 John McFall, a member of the European astronaut reserve from the ESA astronaut class of 2022, brings a diverse background to his role. With experience as an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon and a former Paralympic sprinter...
• Save the date: ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025 ESA · 24 Jun 2024 Save the date for ESA’s next Living Planet Symposium, set for 23–27 June 2025 at the Austria Center Vienna. Held every three years, this premier Earth observation conference continues to expand in both size and scope. Wi...
• PLD Space Likely to Be the First to Use New Launch Complex in Kourou European Spaceflight · 24 Jun 2024 ESA director of space transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen has revealed that PLD Space is likely to be the first company to launch a rocket from the new commercial launch complex being built on the grounds of the Guiana Sp...
• ESA Ariane 6 Clears Final Test Ahead Of Maiden Flight The Launch Pad · 21 Jun 2024 ESA Ariane 6 Clears Final Test Ahead Of Maiden Flight
• Ariane 6 joint update report, 21 June 2024 ESA · 21 Jun 2024 The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management of ESA, as the overall Ariane 6 procuring entity and launch system architect, of the French space agency CNES as the launch base prime contractor, of ArianeGrou...
• Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula NASA · 21 Jun 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis. Nebu...
• Webb snaps first image of aligned jets from newborn stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly has been captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebul...
• NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars NASA · 20 Jun 2024 The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like it to probe the nature of matter inside these very dense objects...
• ESA Asked to Mediate Avio’s Split from Arianespace European Spaceflight · 20 Jun 2024 The European Space Agency has been asked to mediate the ongoing negotiations to transfer the operational responsibility of Vega C from Arianespace to its manufacturer, Avio. In November 2023, at the Space Summit in Sevil...
• Too young to be so cool: lessons from three neutron stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft have detected three young neutron stars that are unusually cold for their age. By comparing their properties to different neutron star models, scientists conclude that the o...
• Scientists spot hidden companions of bright stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 Detecting faint objects close to bright stars is incredibly difficult. Yet, by combining data from ESA's Gaia space telescope with ESO’s GRAVITY instrument on the ground, scientists managed just that. They captured the f...
• ESA takes first step to modify georeturn policies SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 European Space Agency member states have taken a step towards modifying long-standing policies that award contracts for agency programs based on the size of each country’s financial contribution.
• 327th ESA Council : Media information session at ESA HQ ESA · 19 Jun 2024 ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun brief journalists on decisions taken at the ESA Council meeting held in Paris on 18 and 19 June 2024.
• Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality ESA · 19 Jun 2024 Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where it goes after that remains largely unknown. But a new ESA Discovery study reported in Nature Communications has proven the concept...
• Slovenia Sign Agreement to Become 23rd ESA Member State European Spaceflight · 19 Jun 2024 Slovenia has signed an agreement to become the 23rd member state of the European Space Agency. The country will be the first to join the ranks of ESA member states since Estonia and Hungary in 2015. In a ceremony that to...
• Slovenia to become ESA’s 23rd Member State ESA · 19 Jun 2024 Slovenia signed the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 18 June 2024. Upon ratification, Slovenia will become the 23rd ESA Member State.
• Can't stop won't stop: Solar Orbiter shows the Sun raging on ESA · 18 Jun 2024 The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for the beautiful auroras earlier in May was still alive and kicking when it rotated away from Earth’s view. Watching from the other side of the Sun, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter m...